{"id":5951,"date":"2023-05-24T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:50:10","slug":"continued-meeting-minutes-may-12-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"CONTINUED MEETING MINUTES &#8212; MAY 12, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MINUTES OF THE CONTINUED MEETING OF THE BENTON CITY COUNCIL HELD FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023 AT 8:30 A.M. AT THE BENTON CITY HALL LOCATED AT 1403 SOUTH MAIN STREET, BENTON, ILLINOIS.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAYOR MESSERSMITH CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. \u00a0COMMISSIONER KAYS, COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER COCKUP, AND MAYOR MESSERSMITH WERE PRESENT FOR ROLL CALL.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER STOREY WAS NOT PRESENT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>COMMISSIONER KAYS MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE BILLS FOR THE AP FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $352,846.30 AND FOR MFT IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,951.09 FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT OF BILLS IN THE AMOUNT OF $378,797.39.\u00a0 SECOND BY COMMISSIONER COCKRUM.\u00a0 VOTE WAS TAKEN.\u00a0 YEAS:\u00a0 4.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER KAYS, COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER COCKRUM, AND MAYOR MESSERSMITH.\u00a0 NAYS:\u00a0 0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MOTION TO ADJOURN WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER KAYS.\u00a0 SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA.\u00a0 VOTE WAS TAKEN.\u00a0 YEAS:\u00a0 4.\u00a0 COMMISSIONER KAYS, COMMISSIONER GARAVALIA, COMMISSIONER COCKRUM, AND MAYOR MESSERSMITH.\u00a0 NAYS:\u00a0 0.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TIME 8:35 A.M.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINUTES OF THE CONTINUED MEETING OF THE BENTON CITY COUNCIL HELD FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2023 AT 8:30 A.M. AT THE BENTON CITY HALL LOCATED AT 1403 SOUTH MAIN STREET, BENTON, ILLINOIS. &nbsp; MAYOR MESSERSMITH CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. \u00a0COMMISSIONER &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=5951\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5952,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}